Then turn my face around…
Back in June of last year I posted the above RCA Japan advert for Low in a piece about the album being the best album of all time. (06.08.2008 NEWS: SUNDAY TIMES SAYS LOW IS BEST ALBUM EVER MADE)
In that piece I asked: “What’s up with the album sleeve…did you notice it’s reversed? Did any get printed like that?”
Sadly, nobody got in touch to say they have a version of Low like the one in the advert and I guess I might just have to accept that it appeared like that in the ad only.
However, going through some of my Japanese pressings recently I noticed the anomaly above. It’s the Japanese CHANGESONEBOWIE and the six-page inner lyric booklet has the front cover image reversed for no good reason.
Bearing in mind that Low was released a mere seven months after CHANGESONEBOWIE, could it be that RCA Japan had a maverick designer on board who had their hand on more than just CHANGESONEBOWIE? Let’s hope so…who wouldn’t want a wrong-way-round Low?